Another blow for linux

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1507

<quote>
Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home version of 
the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.

ASUS expects to ship in the region of 5 million Eee units this year, but the 
fact that the company expects 3 million of these to be XP-based must come as 
a poke in the eye to all the Linux enthusiasts who saw the Eee as bringing 
Linux to the masses.
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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, netcat
<netcat@idontdospam.invalid>
 wrote
on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:29:05 -0500
<JKOdnTPS_NKcrWjanZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d@supernews.com>:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:43:47 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On 2008-04-03, Ezekiel <a@b.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1507
>>>
>>>
>> That's a marketshare of 40%, compared to an overall marketshare of
less
>> than 1% (if we believe people such as yourself) where is the big
>> tragedy?
>> 
>
> And even the Windows XP EEE's are Linux-compatible. When their owners get 
> tired of running an 8-year-old OS, being treated like dirt, and being 
> charged more for Windows applications than they paid for the computer, 
> it'll be an easy move to Linux.

No it won't.  Microsoft still has its mighty Marketing
Machine, and it'll flood the airwaves and print media with
seductive adverts touting Vista as the best thing since
sliced bread (or something in lieu thereof; they only know,
as I don't).

Expect a lot of sliced bread (or something in lieu thereof)
in the near future.

Not sure how Linux can overcome that deluge of sliced bread.
Best I can hope for is an ASUS campaign countering it, and
more support from Dell, though last time I looked Dell was
more interested in the pretty outsides of its laptops than
what software was going thereinto.

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On Apr 3, 1:41 pm, 7 <website_has_em...@www.enemygadgets.com> wrote:
> Ezekiel wrote:
>
> >http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1507
>
> > <quote>
> > Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home
version
> > of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
>
> > ASUS expects to ship in the region of 5 million Eee units this year,
but
> > the fact that the company expects 3 million of these to be XP-based
must
> > come as a poke in the eye to all the Linux enthusiasts who saw the Eee
as
> > bringing Linux to the masses.
> > </quote>
>
> It looks like Linux got there first and created the market first.
> Its a massive terrible blow and shame for micoshaft corporation marketing.
> They know nothing except how to become wannabees.
>

In all fairness, Microsoft did try something similar in the mid to
late 90's.

The problem was...

-The OS (usually WinCE 2.x) was installed in ROM and wasn't
upgradeable
-The processor architecture used in these devices varied by
manufacturer, resulting in poor third-party software support.
-Applications were not backwards-compatible between different versions
of Windows CE.
-The devices didn't include enough memory to run applications
smoothly.

Windows XP may function on the EEE, but it'll eat up a significant
amount space on the SSD; its performance may also come as a throwback
to the days of Windows CE.  Linux, on the other hand, is easily
scalable and quite usable on systems with constraints on space and
memory.

> Linux is now first in many things serving the customer ahead of
windummies.http://www.livecdlist.comhttp://www.distrowatch.com

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:01:10 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> 
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1507
>> 
>> <quote>
>> Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home
version
>> of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
>> 
>> ASUS expects to ship in the region of 5 million Eee units this year,
but
>> the fact that the company expects 3 million of these to be XP-based
must
>> come as a poke in the eye to all the Linux enthusiasts who saw the Eee
as
>> bringing Linux to the masses.
>> </quote>
> 
> Too bad they don't have any figures on how many of the Linux machines were
> reloaded with Windows after the users got fed up with Linux.
> 
> It sure didn't take long for the blogs and help sites to appear to show
> how to dump Linux and load Windows.

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Hadron wrote:

> netcat <netcat@idontdospam.invalid> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:43:47 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-04-03, Ezekiel <a@b.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1507
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's a marketshare of 40%, compared to an overall marketshare of
less
>>> than 1% (if we believe people such as yourself) where is the big
>>> tragedy?
>>> 
>>
>> And even the Windows XP EEE's are Linux-compatible. When their owners
>> get
> 
> LOL.
> 
> You'll be like Koehlmann claiming the PS3 is a Linux machine. You'll no
> doubt be claiming that all the EEEs shipped with Xp are in fact
"Linux
> machines".
> 
> Bozo.
> 
>> tired of running an 8-year-old OS, being treated like dirt, and being
>> charged more for Windows applications than they paid for the computer,
>> it'll be an easy move to Linux.
> 
> Sure. This is the year of Linux!
> 

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